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Episode #19

Online Education and Paying for College

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The credit rating agency Moody's revised its outlook for the whole U.S. higher education sector from "stable" to "negative" in a report released last week.

According to the report, universities and colleges funding and revenue sources all face increasing pressure. Moody's analysts cite one destabilizing trend, the growing popularity of "Massive Open Online Courses," or MOOCs. These are free, online, university-level classes and millions of people around the world are signing enrolling.

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The PAVE model is nowhere near new. Please research MYRICHUNCLE (also from NYC, launched over a decade ago, went belly-up in the 2008-09 recession). The MRU guys are either helping Pave recycle the model, or Pave is simply stealing their patented models and exploiting the opportunities that MRU created.

5% of salary for ten years as a "freelance foreign correspondent" sounds great! For the recipient.... (let's see, 10-20k x .5 x 10...)

Better 2-sided bet for artists, whose work might rise in value...

Not necessarily such a great deal for anybody else...

But a wonderful idea to help humanity and democracy of course. Too bad the state dept or some other public $$ does not support the effort to provide americans with professional-level analysis and commentary that a (currently non-existent) class of experienced, well paid correspondents could provide...

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